Nancy G. Patterson, Ph.D
Chair, Reading/Language Arts Program
Syllabus
Graphic Organizer Assignment
Theoretical Framework/Literature Review
Blog
First theory and history 400 B.C.E to 1899
Early Reading
EDR 621: Current Issues and Trends
in Literacy
The National Council of Teachers of English believe the Reading First Initiative is potentially harmful to children for several reasons:
Individually unique children suffer when they are subjected to a national, single, uniform model of reading instruction.
Children are deprived of sensitive, responsive precision in teaching when a rigid methodology is imposed on teachers.
Teaching that is based upon a limited, inadequate research base risks miseducating children about reading.